Polymorphism, Recombination and Alternative Unscrambling in the DNA Polymerase α Gene of the Ciliate Stylonychia lemnae (Alveolata; class Spirotrichea)

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1761-1777

  Ardell, David H ^a,b,c,d   Lozupone, Catherine A ^b,e   Landweber, Laura F ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HEMIZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STYLONYCHIA LEMNAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA POLYMERASE I; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOTYPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALVEOLATA; CILIOPHORA; PROTOZOA; SPIROTRICHEA; STYLONYCHIA; STYLONYCHIA LEMNAE;

EID: 0347361695     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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